'When mother went and joined the W.A.A.C.s'
A British comic postcard
Four smiling children have been depicted sitting on a doorstep on the front of this postcard. The caption above reads, ‘When mother went and joined the W.A.A.C.s / We were pleased but didn’t tell, / Cos it was the whacks we used to get, / That used to give us’. ‘WAAC’ stands for the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps. The printed information on the reverse includes: ‘Bamforth & Co. Ltd. Publishers Holmfirth England and New York’, ‘Witty Comic Series / No 689’ and ‘Printed in Britain’.
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Postcard
CONTRIBUTOR
The Army Children Archive
DATE
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LANGUAGE
eng
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INSTITUTION
Europeana 1914-1918
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